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The return of the last prisoners of war in 1955 is one of the most moving chapters in German post-war history.
"The Return of the Ten Thousand" is about hopes and fears, in the camps and among relatives at home - in the Federal Republic and the GDR.
These are images that still move us today: Those men who are greeted by a wave of emotion in Germany in the fall of 1955.
Mothers embrace their sons, wives their husbands - after more than ten years of separation.
Children stand speechless before their fathers, whom they can barely remember - if at all.
Yet their release was hanging by a thread: Adenauer is in Moscow in the summer of 1955 and wants to get the last prisoners of war out, but the Soviets refuse.
As the Chancellor is about to leave, Khrushchev invites him to the opera.
It is the evening that changes everything.
